September 10th x DISKO NOUVEAUX x PUREVILE! x DJ JEFFO! x DJ Hi-Fi Hillary!!!!!

It's September Disko Dollies...and the crisp weather brings an amazing new set of B-side babies...and some fabulash guest DJ's to keep you dancing with tears in your eyes!!!!

This Month Featuring:

DJ PUREVILE! : Resident and co-founder...He WILL tumble 4 ya.....

DJ Hi-Fi HILLARY (Contempt) : Back again and ready to have you Wild Boys and Girls on Film holding back the rain....

DJ JEFFO BANG (Skittles): JEFFO! will be popping his DISKO cherry and have you all screaming in your pillows!!!!!

Spin New Romantic – New Wave – Postpunk – Glam – Batcave

 Your Host:

The remarkable and stunning SHIEN LEE (Dances of Vice) giving you Replicant realness....is she real??? or is she Memorex?????

  The Gallery at LPR
158 Bleecker Street, NYC

$5 Cover, 21+ ID Required

Dress Code: Peacock Punks, Femme Fatales, Beat Boys, Dandy Highwaymen, Diamond Dogs, le Goth Classique, Neon Geishas, Ladies in Waiting, Sex Gang Children, Slinky Vagabonds, Chameleons, Young Sophisticates, Extraordinary Gentlemen

See ALL of you then!!!!!

XOXO

My Fairy Godmother

                                                     Marion Britton 4/28/48-9/11/01

If you want to hear some kind of political rant you came to the wrong place...if you want someone to point a finger and place the blame...please go somewhere else...if you want someone to rally around all the hype and wave the flag of righetiousness....you've picked the wrong guy....me...I just miss my Aunt....

10 years later and sometimes it feels like it didn't happen..... but it did...weather it's that hole that still sits there downtown reminding us...or the hole in my heart that will never be filled...it happened...and it affected us all in some way....for me it just happens to be personal.....

For those that don't know my Aunt was killed on Flight 93 on 9/11.....Marion Britton...she was loud and outspoken....bigger than life and opinionated as hell.....she was human and flawed and wonderful...she was my aunt whom I so gayly dubbed my "Fairy Godmother"...we didn't see her alot...mostly holidays...but when we did she showered us with gifts and food and love.....she made us feel so special and used to let us collect all the change from her car and keep it!!!! She played board games with us and yelled as loud as we did{and sometimes cheated}...and she snuck away with us during my brothers wedding to get White Castle.....she was a partner in crime.....

She was also a very secretive person and there was so much I never knew about her...so much NONE of us knew about her...and things that now I will never get to know about her.....and so many things I will never be able to share with her either.....Pieces of my life that I'm so proud of...things I've acomplished...dreams finally fufilled....she will never know

So this year...10 years later...I choose to stay home....I won't be attending the memorial in Shanksville PA.....I cannot deal with being there again with so many people and the media and everything.....My family will be there and I'm sad to not be with them...but I just can't.....What I will most likely do...Is go have a nice dinner....by myself...somewhere fancy and delicious and eat until I can't eat anymore...then go get a Bear Claw and sit in the park....remembering how my aunt used to laugh...{mostly AT other people...}....thinking of her...in my own way....the way I need too....and maybe wishing for a second she was there with me.....Sharing a treat.....

XOXO

the Dicipline of Fashion

Stephen Miesel...Stella Tennant....some photo-magic...and inspiration from Ethel Granger who was known for her 13 inch waist.....Allready causing some controversy...I feel like these images are just STUNNING!!!! Can't wait to get the actual magazine!!!! ENJOY!!!

XOXO

OBSESSED: Men in skirts

                                                       I mean I'VE worn one....

It's still such a taboo in our society...so strange...in so many other cultures and so many other time periods men freely worse skirts or some vesion of a skirt....but in our often homophobic {and sometime mysoginisc}world it is still considered transgressive for a man to don a skirt....as if it would cause the very fabric of our society to crumble.....I mean who doesnt want to feel the air flow all around them...to hear the rustle of fabrics as one descends a staircase??? i know I do!!!!! and this doesn't have to have anything to do with drag....and if it does...so WHAT!?!?!?!? people have been fucking with gender since the beginning of time.... why stop now....besides.....guys and skirts...HOT!!!!!!

So here for your perusal...are some men 'pushing boundries"...and looking damn good while doing so!!!!!

                                                                           XOXO

 

Skin and Ink

just LOVED this photoshoot by Diego Indraccolo {http://www.diego.indraccolo.com/} for "Schon" magazine!!!  { http://schonmagazine.com/ One of my new fave publications!!!} The smoky overlays...the ghostly feel....both alien and phantasmagoric.....lovely....

XOXO

McQ : F/W 2011...Pretty in Punk

So Sarah burton continues the McQueen line with "McQ" the "lower" priced McQueen line.....Her Fall/Winter collection is actually pretty cool...It's ANOTHER rehash of the punk thing...and yeah sometimes I cringe when fashion houses do "punk" it ends up looking kind of derivitive and really just sucky.....but the reason her version appeals to me is there is so much handwork!!! HUNDREDS of saftey pins adorn a vest....messages and scatchitti adorn a M.C.....the clothing looks like the stuff my friends and I did in highschool when we were broke...{yeah like were RICH now!!! heh}

Iconic tartans...saftey pins...leather jackets and trousers....I was definately impressed and it definately appealed to the nostalgia addict in me!!!!The vest below was one of my favourites...and don't THINK I didn't just go out and buy a HUGE bag of saftey pins to recreate this!!!!! Pictures to follow definately!!!!!

Reminds me so much of my friend Gina!!!! We would spend HOURS putting saftey pins on ANYTHING that layed around too much!!! Now I use them like a stylist does to take in little nips and tucks and to hold things JUST RIGHT.....and to hold togther less relaiable vintage items!!! [heh}

So glad that Sarah Burton is still keeping the  McQueen alive in all aspects of the brand!!!!! Great job Ms Burton!!!

XOXO

The Irrepressibles: In This Shirt (Röyksopp Edit)

My friend Micol posted this on my FB page...and I just found the need to share it...bringing a new light to an allready magical song......I hope you all enjoy it as much as I {we} did.....

                                                                            XOXO

also kind of a fan of the Hercules and Love affair remix as well.....